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Dr. Michael Addis is Professor
and Chair of the Department of Psychology at
Clark University. He received a B.A. from the
University of California, Berkeley in 1987 and a
Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University
of Washington in 1995. Dr. Addis has published
over fifty scientific articles and books on men's
well-being, depression, anxiety, and the
relationship between scientific research and
clinical practice in psychology. He is
currently interested in links between the social
learning of masculine norms and the way men
experience, express, and respond to problems in
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MySha Whorley is a fourth-year
clinical psychology graduate student at Clark.
Her overarching research interests are in the
relationship between adherence to masculine norms
and men's experience and expression of emotion.
MySha recently concluded a study examining the
relationship between adherence to masculine norms,
negative affect, and the level of emotion
expressed in mens written disclosures. Her
dissertation project will test an intervention to
reduce depressive symptoms and increase social
support seeking in men recently diagnosed with
prostate cancer. |
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Matthew Syzdek is a second-year
clinical psychology student at Clark. His
overarching interests are gender, class, mental
health, and social justice, with a focus on how
working class men deal with problems in their
lives. Matt's current project examines stresses
experienced by men following job loss. In his
future work, Matt plans to integrate research,
clinical work, and advocacy in the pursuit of
bettering mens well-being and mental health.
He hopes that his work will eventually impact the
lives of individual men as well as public policy.
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Geoff Cohane is a fifth-year
clinical psychology graduate student at Clark. He
is currently completing a clinical internship at
McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Geoff's
research is on identifying barriers to accepting
or acknowledging painful emotions and to seeking
help in adolescent boys. Geoff regularly
practices mindfulness and meditation and hopes to
eventually integrate his research findings with
the theory and practice of meditation in order to
create mindfulness-based interventions targeted
specifically to boys. |
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Jennifer Lane is a sixth-year
clinical psychology graduate student at Clark and
will be starting a post-doctoral fellowship at
Brown Medical School this fall. Her overarching
research interests include mens mental
health, depression, and treatment outcome.
Jens masters project examined the
relationship between gender role conflict and
patterns of help-seeking in Costa Rican and U.S.
men. Her dissertation is developing and testing a
new intervention for men with Major Depressive
Disorder. |
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Jonathan Green is a first-year
clinical psychology graduate student at Clark.
His overarching research interests include
adherence to masculine norms and depression in
men; specifically the concept of "covert"
or "masked" depression. Jonathan is
currently studying the relationship between men's
psychophysiology, endorsement of masculinity
norms, and reported feelings of sadness. |
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Jason Berkowitz is a senior
undergraduate at Clark. His overarching research
is men's mental health and partners of mental
health patients. He hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in
Clinical Psychology to continue research and to
provide therapy. Jason is currently formulating
an honor's project on the male partners of
individuals with a mental disorder. |
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Andrew Ninnemann is a sophomore
undergraduate at Clark. Planning to pursue a
double major in psychology and international
development and social change, with a minor in
theatre, Andrew hopes to conduct two research
studies during the next few years. His current
interests include the relationship between
videogaming and masculine norms as well as
masculine norms in soccer and football players. |
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Malini Sakhrani is a junior
undergraduate at Clark. In addition to
participating in the general activities of the
Men's Coping Lab, she assists Matthew with his
current research project on stress in newly
unemployed men. Her goal is to gain hands-on
research experience so that she can formulate and
develop an independent research project. Malini's
current research interests include parental
influences on Indian youth's ideas about mental
health, and cross-cultural comparisons of help-seeking
in American and Indian youth. |
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